Mohammed Basindawa

Mohammed Basindawa (born 4 April 1935) was the Prime Minister of Yemen frm 2011 to 2014, succeeding Ali Muhammad Mujawar.

Biography
Mohammed Basindawa was born on 4 April 1935 in Aden, Yemen to a Sunni Islamic family. From 1993 to 1994 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen, and in the early 2000s he was a supporter of Ali Abdullah Saleh, resigning from the ruling party to join his opposition. In 2011, after the Yemeni Revolution, Basindawa was made the new Prime Minister. In 2013, he narrowly survived an assassination attempt by gunmen at the time of the Sa'dah War with the rebel Houthis and Al-Qaeda/Ansar al-Sharia. On 21 September 2014, as a part of a peace agreement with the Houthi Shias, Basindawa resigned as rebels advanced on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. Within three days, the rebels were to nominate a new prime minister to succeed him.